A fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli clinical isolate without quinolone resistance-determining region mutations found in Japan

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3964-3965

  Sato, Toyotaka ^a   Yokota, Shin Ichi ^b   Uchida, Ikuo ^c   Okubo, Torahiko ^a   Ishihara, Kanako ^a   Fujii, Nobuhiro ^b   Tamura, Yutaka ^d  

^a RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) A; DNA TOPOISOMERASE (ATP HYDROLYSING) B; ENROFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; PROTEIN OQXAB; PROTEIN OQXB; PROTEIN QNRS; PRULIFLOXACIN; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SITAFLOXACIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; JAPAN; LETTER; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUINOLONE RESISTANCE DETERMINING REGION;

EID: 79960311878     PISSN: 00664804     EISSN: 10986596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AAC.00532-11     Document Type: Letter

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